Tattooed policemen.
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Genetics can effect rate of weight loss, and ease of losing or gaining weight. But people who say they could never be thin because of their genes are lying.
More calories out than in over a period of time and everyone will lose weight. As the Japanese POW camps proved all too efficiently.
And I speak as someone who needs to lose weight. But I have an excuse, I have heavy bones. Funnily enough, the more crap I eat, the heavier my bones get!
More calories out than in over a period of time and everyone will lose weight. As the Japanese POW camps proved all too efficiently.
And I speak as someone who needs to lose weight. But I have an excuse, I have heavy bones. Funnily enough, the more crap I eat, the heavier my bones get!
La Liga said:
But simply because someone has a tattoo is brain-dead thinking.
The best thing about girlies with tattoos is that they obviously make poor choices, possibly through alcohol. It's nice to be able to quickly identify them in a poorly lit club. 
Other than that, whilst I accept that tattoos are more mainstream than they once were, I nevertheless associate them with poor decision making. My ex had one- a lovely, classy girl who chose to ruin perfect skin.
Brain-dead thinking is IMHO when people ask me to explain why I don't have any such self-inflicted injuries.
Rovinghawk said:
La Liga said:
But simply because someone has a tattoo is brain-dead thinking.
The best thing about girlies with tattoos is that they obviously make poor choices, possibly through alcohol. It's nice to be able to quickly identify them in a poorly lit club. Other than that, whilst I accept that tattoos are more mainstream than they once were, I nevertheless associate them with poor decision making. My ex had one- a lovely, classy girl who chose to ruin perfect skin.
Brain-dead thinking is IMHO when people ask me to explain why I don't have any such self-inflicted injuries.
Why is it poor decision makin to get a tattoo? I could equally say that buying a new car is poor decision making because of how much money it loses the instant it's registered. Logicaly it makes no sense to do so therefore it is a poor decision.
Just because you would not do something does not mean that it is therefore a poor decision on the part of someone who would.
Edited by Devil2575 on Friday 13th November 15:54
Devil2575 said:
Just because you would not do something does not mean that it is therefore a poor decision on the part of someone who would.
But it can do. In my book some decisions are poor. Especially so when they are irreversible decisions. Getting a tattoo is one of those, in my opinion. Other opinions are available. Edited by Devil2575 on Friday 13th November 15:54
When in the merchant navy there were plenty of tattoos around. When you are new, initiation rites were Standard procedure.
All my protagonists were heavily tattooed.
Literally, it was hell.
As I was sixteen at the time this has stayed with me since those far off days.
Now, if I see any tattoos on any person I avoid them and know they have made a big, big mistake.
One thing about tattoos. They do fade and 'run' eventually. There were many of my shipmates with red and blue arms, and no discernable pattern. Ghastly!
All my protagonists were heavily tattooed.
Literally, it was hell.
As I was sixteen at the time this has stayed with me since those far off days.
Now, if I see any tattoos on any person I avoid them and know they have made a big, big mistake.
One thing about tattoos. They do fade and 'run' eventually. There were many of my shipmates with red and blue arms, and no discernable pattern. Ghastly!
La Liga said:
An ear-piercing is a 'self-inflicted' injury by those standards. I presume you don't object to girls who have those. Is that the 'right' kind of body modification?
Take the rings out & the hole heals up. Tattoos are more permanent.If tattoos aren't often a bad decision, how come removal places are so busy?
That doesn't mean they aren't 'self-inflicted' by the way you described it.
Are they so busy? What % of people have them removed? How have those %s changed over time? Is the volume simply an increase proportional to the increase in people getting tattoos? Has it increased due to the deregulation of lasers?
Are you just making things up as you go along?
Are they so busy? What % of people have them removed? How have those %s changed over time? Is the volume simply an increase proportional to the increase in people getting tattoos? Has it increased due to the deregulation of lasers?
Are you just making things up as you go along?
Rovinghawk said:
Take the rings out & the hole heals up. Tattoos are more permanent.
If tattoos aren't often a bad decision, how come removal places are so busy?
No it doesn't.If tattoos aren't often a bad decision, how come removal places are so busy?
My ears are pierced but I haven't worn earings for 17 years. I could put an earing in now.
Whether tattoos are a bad decision or not is neither here nor there IMHO. Some people may regret them, some may not. Not everyone is overly concerned about what other people think. However even if we work on the premise that it was a poor decision does that really mean you would avoid people with them? Having a child at 16 could be considered an equally bad decision, getting a criminal record could, getting banned from driving through the points system could. Would you avoid someone who you knew had been banned for accumulating 12 points?
There are any number of things that we might consider are an indication of poor decision making, but to state that you would use this criteria to decide who to avoid says more about you than it does about them.
Devil2575 said:
My ears are pierced but I haven't worn earings for 17 years. I could put an earing in now.
I'm surprised but obviously accept what you say.Devil2575 said:
does that really mean you would avoid people with them?
I think I said earlier that I wouldn't bat an eyelid about a bricklayer having one but wouldn't like them on my accountant. I'll stick with that.Rovinghawk said:
Devil2575 said:
does that really mean you would avoid people with them?
I think I said earlier that I wouldn't bat an eyelid about a bricklayer having one but wouldn't like them on my accountant. I'll stick with that.Devil2575 said:
Surely your accountants credentials are of far more importance.
Obviously not. Here's some real life experience...
I used to work with a fantastic chap who had sleeve tats on each arm, and I mean full sleeves. Not once did any person have anything negative to say about them. People would often ask who did them, what they meant and 'oooh did it hurt'. They became common ground with a chap wanting to throw himself off the top floor of an NCP, given a supposed 'violent nasty offender' who had been kicking off with every other bobby something to relate to and calm down and talk normally about as we dealt with him etc.
Once there was even a time when we had to deal with an increase of 'high class' prostitutes that had been shipped in from Poland. We were told to have a chat and politely tell them to bugger off. We stopped our car and were speaking with one and she was fascinated with his tattoos, my mate made the mistake of asking 'oh, do you have any?' Only for her to pull her trousers down, bend over and shove her naked arse in through the passenger side window of our police car. He was driving so I got the full treatment/view.....thanks for that. I'm sure the complaining residents loved seeing one of the ladies offering her naked ass through a window towards two police officers.
He said no one had ever had an issue with them, they were non offensive, political, racist etc so any issue people had was theirs not his. One of the best officers I have ever worked with, if someone is more fussed about some ink on display I'd hate to see them when something really bad happens.
My manager has tattoos on his arms, and is only now having the ones on his hands lasered off. My old health and safety manager had clearly visible tattoos, too, as do a couple of other managers/seniors. Hell, my friend has a full sleeve and works in banking, while his wife has her hair dyed bright pink and works in a corporate office.
I don't, but I'm glad to work in a real profession like engineering, which from the sounds of some people in this thread is clearly in the shrinking number of those where people's competence is more important than whether they've got ink. And you can forget any superiority complex about nasty, dirty people in backstreet workshops when I say "engineering", this is first-tier aerospace, and these people do damn good work.
Face it. You're children in a business-casual creche, all dress codes and making sure you look pretty. Accept it and stop taking out your frustration on people good enough to be measured instead by what they do.
Did that upset someone? Good. Riles you up, doesn't it, to have someone make such blasé statements based on so little?
I don't, but I'm glad to work in a real profession like engineering, which from the sounds of some people in this thread is clearly in the shrinking number of those where people's competence is more important than whether they've got ink. And you can forget any superiority complex about nasty, dirty people in backstreet workshops when I say "engineering", this is first-tier aerospace, and these people do damn good work.
Face it. You're children in a business-casual creche, all dress codes and making sure you look pretty. Accept it and stop taking out your frustration on people good enough to be measured instead by what they do.
Did that upset someone? Good. Riles you up, doesn't it, to have someone make such blasé statements based on so little?
InitialDave said:
My manager has tattoos on his arms, and is only now having the ones on his hands lasered off. My old health and safety manager had clearly visible tattoos, too, as do a couple of other managers/seniors. Hell, my friend has a full sleeve and works in banking, while his wife has her hair dyed bright pink and works in a corporate office.
I don't, but I'm glad to work in a real profession like engineering, which from the sounds of some people in this thread is clearly in the shrinking number of those where people's competence is more important than whether they've got ink. And you can forget any superiority complex about nasty, dirty people in backstreet workshops when I say "engineering", this is first-tier aerospace, and these people do damn good work.
Face it. You're children in a business-casual creche, all dress codes and making sure you look pretty. Accept it and stop taking out your frustration on people good enough to be measured instead by what they do.
Did that upset someone? Good. Riles you up, doesn't it, to have someone make such blasé statements based on so little?
I don't, but I'm glad to work in a real profession like engineering, which from the sounds of some people in this thread is clearly in the shrinking number of those where people's competence is more important than whether they've got ink. And you can forget any superiority complex about nasty, dirty people in backstreet workshops when I say "engineering", this is first-tier aerospace, and these people do damn good work.
Face it. You're children in a business-casual creche, all dress codes and making sure you look pretty. Accept it and stop taking out your frustration on people good enough to be measured instead by what they do.
Did that upset someone? Good. Riles you up, doesn't it, to have someone make such blasé statements based on so little?
Pete317 said:
InitialDave said:
My manager has tattoos on his arms, and is only now having the ones on his hands lasered off. My old health and safety manager had clearly visible tattoos, too, as do a couple of other managers/seniors. Hell, my friend has a full sleeve and works in banking, while his wife has her hair dyed bright pink and works in a corporate office.
I don't, but I'm glad to work in a real profession like engineering, which from the sounds of some people in this thread is clearly in the shrinking number of those where people's competence is more important than whether they've got ink. And you can forget any superiority complex about nasty, dirty people in backstreet workshops when I say "engineering", this is first-tier aerospace, and these people do damn good work.
Face it. You're children in a business-casual creche, all dress codes and making sure you look pretty. Accept it and stop taking out your frustration on people good enough to be measured instead by what they do.
Did that upset someone? Good. Riles you up, doesn't it, to have someone make such blasé statements based on so little?
I don't, but I'm glad to work in a real profession like engineering, which from the sounds of some people in this thread is clearly in the shrinking number of those where people's competence is more important than whether they've got ink. And you can forget any superiority complex about nasty, dirty people in backstreet workshops when I say "engineering", this is first-tier aerospace, and these people do damn good work.
Face it. You're children in a business-casual creche, all dress codes and making sure you look pretty. Accept it and stop taking out your frustration on people good enough to be measured instead by what they do.
Did that upset someone? Good. Riles you up, doesn't it, to have someone make such blasé statements based on so little?
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